Gonzalo Cantou
Sr Platform Engineer
Argentina
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Top SchoolGonzalo Cantou is a senior platform engineer with 9 years of full-stack experience, currently building platform capabilities at Mural and previously leading backend teams across startups and scale-ups in Argentina. He blends strong Node/TypeScript expertise with serverless AWS, GraphQL/REST, CI/CD and multi-database architectures to deliver scalable, production-ready systems. Gonzalo has repeatedly driven tech migrations, reduced vendor dependency, and implemented observability and logging solutions that improved operational visibility and cut costs. As a hands-on mentor and team lead, he has shaped engineering culture, run tech talks, and built reusable UI and logging libraries to boost developer productivity. He pairs practical performance optimizations (latency and retention wins) with architectural vision—designing global config and feature-flag systems for large platforms. Outside of product work he teaches algorithms and modern tooling, reflecting a continuous-learning habit that fuels his pragmatic approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Programación informática Programación informática, Programación informática Programación informática at Universidad Nacional de San MartínCarrera de desarrollador web full stack, Carrera de desarrollador web full stack at Educacion itCursos avanzados de back end y front end, Cursos avanzados de back end y front end at Coderhouse
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Github Skills (70)
sublime10
xtend10
wollok9
eclipse9
ide9
testing7
programming-language7
react7
refactoring6
emberjs6
react-context6
interpreter6
global-state6
browser6
javascript6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Guusy/MercadolibreChallenge
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
Guusy/spaceships-battle
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Spaceships battle game in realtime
Contributions:58 commits, 3 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 month
2d-gamerealtimereactgamebattle
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